🌱 Youth Leadership Opportunity: Help Shape Green Careers in Wales 

Are you aged 16–30, passionate about sustainability, and ready to influence how green careers are developed across Wales? 

We’re looking for young people to join the Green Champions Youth Board, a core part of the Green Careers project, and represent youth voices across three key levels of engagement: 

Green Champions Youth Board (Ongoing) 

Purpose: 

• Shape programme design 
• Lead campaigns and awareness raising 
• Provide scrutiny and feedback (e.g., through reports to Public Services Boards) 

Structure: 

• Suggested size: 8–12 young people 
• Supported by youth engagement staff 
• Includes at least one rotating Youth Board Rep with support to present and contribute to external meetings below  

🔹 External steering group board  

Represent youth perspectives at a national level alongside senior decision-makers from Welsh Government, education, industry, housing, and environmental organisations. 

🔹 Locality Meetings in Swansea and Newport 

Engage with local partners to shape green career opportunities in your community and ensure regional relevance. 

💡 What you’ll gain: 

🌍 A platform to influence real change 

🤝 Connections with professionals and leaders across sectors 

📚 Insight into how government, business, and education collaborate 

💬 confidence in sharing your ideas and representing youth perspectives 

👥 Who we’re looking for: 

✅ Aged 16–30 and living in Newport or Swansea 

✅ Passionate about sustainability, the environment, or future careers 

✅ Keen to share ideas and represent young people locally and nationally 

✅ Open-minded, positive, and ready to learn 

✅ We actively encourage applications from young people who are: 

• Black, Asian, or from other ethnically diverse backgrounds 

• Disabled or neurodivergent 

• Women  

• From underrepresented or marginalised communities 

📅 Additional Details to be added to Plinth: 

🗓️ Dates: monthly and quarterly meetings  

📍 Locations: multiple venues at either Swansea or Newport  

💬 Support: Pre-meeting briefing and mentoring provided 

This is a unique opportunity to make sure young people’s voices are heard at every level from local communities to national strategy in shaping Wales's green future. 

👉 To express your interest, please contact your Green Careers coach , placement or community facilitator